Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI doomerism has 'done a lot of damage' and is 'not helpful to society'

• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said there's a real cost to AI doomerism.
• Without naming names, Huang blamed "very well-respected people" for end-of-the-world narratives.
• Huang said the rhetoric is "scaring people" from making investments in the improvement of AI.

Jensen Huang is over AI doomerism.

The Nvidia CEO said one of his biggest takeaways from 2025 was "the battle of narratives" over the future of AI development between those who see doom on the horizon and the optimists. Huang said while "it's too simplistic" to dismiss either side entirely, some of the dismal outlooks are having real consequences.

"I think we've done a lot of damage with very well-respected people who have painted a doomer narrative, end of the world narrative, science fiction narrative," Huang said during a recent episode of the "No Priors" podcast. "And I appreciate that many of us grew up and enjoyed science fiction, but it's not helpful. It's not helpful to people. It's not helpful to the industry. It's not helpful to society. It's not helpful to the governments."

Huang didn't name the people in question, nor did he give a specific motivation for why people may be sharing their more dour outlook. Instead, he cited concerns about "regulatory capture," arguing that no company should approach governments to request more regulation.

"Their intentions are clearly deeply conflicted, and their intentions are clearly not completely in the best interest of society," he said. "I mean, they're obviously CEOs, they're obviously companies, and obviously they're advocating for themselves."

A spokesperson for Nvidia declined to elaborate on Huang's remarks. Previously, the Nvidia CEO took issue with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's prediction that AI could replace up to half of all white-collar entry-level jobs within five years. (Amodei later said that Huang distorted his views.)

Overall, Huang said the sheer amount of negativity is distorting the conversation around AI.

"When 90% of the messaging is all around the end of the world and the pessimism, and I think we're scaring people from making the investments in AI that makes it safer, more functional, more productive, and more useful to society," he said.

Huang isn't the only CEO who is hoping for a different AI narrative in 2026. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote in his year-end note that he wanted that society needs to move beyond labeling content AI "slop."

"We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication," Nadella wrote on his blog late last year, "and develop a new equilibrium in terms of our 'theory of the mind' that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools as we relate to each other."